Month: November 2018
My iOS video workflow on The Sweet Setup
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You know I’m iOS first because I’ve said it a few times. Many of you have asked how I do it so I’ve been writing about it. Today you can read about how I shoot and edit videos with LumaFusion on my iPad Pro over on The Sweet Setup.
Some Marketing That Has Worked for Me
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In a few weeks, Jason Resnick and I are going to be leading a workshop called Stop the Cycle. We’ll be talking about the marketing that’s worked for us and how to take control of your time so that you don’t miss your marketing activities. Since Jason is going to lead the marketing talk, I…
Dealing with zip files in iOS
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One of the things I get to do as I develop websites on iOS is deal with .zip files. I download plugins for WordPress and need to uncompressed them to upload to a client site. I need to grab a folder of files and compress them for a client so they have a copy of…
Operating System Windowing and Focused Productivity: An Assertion on Why iOS feels more productive
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I’ve made no secret about my change to a mostly iOS work environment. I eschew the task managers that everyone talks about and stick with paper and pen because it allows more focus. It’s so much harder to make commitments for future me with paper. In short, I believe that constraints are amazing. They make…
On Sketchnotes from Alpha Efficiency
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So about Sketchnoting: I like to call sketchnotes notes plus because they’re just like the notes you take now, with drawings, icons, and lettering added for emphasis. The addition of visual elements help you remember ideas more clearly and make note-taking more fun. Sketchnoting is all about being in the moment and relying on your…
Getting your business to stand out
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Jeff Brown has a great podcast on standing out. I use one of these strategies to serve his book group well by participating extensively in it. I’ve even produced audio reviews for member only. What are you doing to stand out?
Paper doesn’t just have to be words
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Jamie Todd Rubin on Journals: One thing I love about these journals is that they are multimedia. Read the post about the British diarist made me realize that what I put into the journal doesn’t have to be exclusively writing. So there are many pages with photos I’ve taken, pasted in. I realized this week…
The “never work a day in your life” dream
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From John Westenberg: Why wouldn’t we want to have a life without work? A life without the pressure of getting shit done, a life where we don’t have liabilities and responsibilities that demand time and bandwidth and emotional and physical and intellectual labour? It sounds like a dream come true, but it really is only…
Our Chameleon Screens
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Steve Leveen on Well-Read Life: From what I’ve seen, our chameleon screens are distracting many of us much of the time. To actually get work done, some of us, including me, try to apply some discipline. We may try to check email only at certain times of day. We may intentionally go offline. We may…
Time Energy and Attention
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Great discussion from Asian Efficiency on time energy and attention. Like today, I had the time to do a bunch of stuff but no energy due to a late night and my attention was pulled all over since my wife was out on a course. You need to make sure you have all 3 sorted…
